Scherer’s map of North Europe and Scandinavia.

Heinrich Scherer’s map of Northern Europe, extending from the British Isles and Iceland across Scandinavia and the Baltic to the western regions of Russia. Decorative elements include an ornate title cartouche, a sailing vessel at sea, and a scale cartouche surmounted by the emblem of the Jesuit Order. Heinrich Scherer, a Jesuit scholar and professor of mathematics in Munich, produced a series of maps that emphasised the structure of the Catholic world and the global reach of Jesuit missions.